As Green as It Gets Coffee cooperative...style roasting in a pan on the wood fired stove. Anna giving roasting a try. Next was Sarah, turning coffee beans with one hand and taking
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As Green as It GetsCoffee cooperative
As Green as It Gets Web-page WWW.asgreenasitgets.org
Their mission
Visiting a coffee plantation with the grower
Newly planted coffee trees need shade from nurse trees
Coffee tree
Nurse tree
The common nurse tree in Guatemala was Silky oak (Grevillea). It is fast growing and can eventually be used for firewood.
Nurse trees
Coffee flowers Coffee fruits
Coffee seedlings are grown in plastic bags in shaded nurseries
The Grevillea trees are grown in a similar way
Back from the field to learn how coffee is processed and roasted.
But first a Geology lesson
from Anna
The harvested coffee needs to have the fleshy fruit covering removed.
This grower employs a bicycle-like pedal powered fruit removal machine.
Pedal powered machines are useful for all sorts of applications like this pedal powered blender.
There is an NGO in Guatamala for making useful pedal powered machines. Our guide at IMAP worked for Maya Pedal before moving to IMAP.
Once the coffee seeds are separated from the fruits they are roasted.
Katie
We were treated to a home-style roasting in a pan on the
wood fired stove.
Anna giving roasting a try.
Next was Sarah, turning coffee beans with one hand and taking notes
with the other.
The beans are getting darker as they toast.
Finally, the coffee beans are dark enough to begin the
grinding process.
This is old school grinding using a grindstone.
The mother of the house showed us the proper
technique.
Anna using the grindstone
Mother only seems to be grinding faster than Sarah?